MAPPING WEAVING TO THE LAB
I became increasingly sensitised to the lab’s vibrancy. Vibrant purple or blue nitrile gloves, red and yellow perspex mouse holdings, soft pink insulating foam in a CT scanner with turquoise radiation-proof cladding and silver chrome gas canisters all became entangled with my thinking in terms of the possibilities available to me in my weaving. Visible warnings and signifiers of invisible forces and dangers are indicated with colour and labels in the lab. Alongside the protocols and systems for ordering and arranging the objects and materials in the laboratory, an underlying sense of chaos exists.
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I became increasingly sensitised to the lab’s vibrancy. Vibrant purple or blue nitrile gloves, red and yellow perspex mouse holdings, soft pink insulating foam in a CT scanner with turquoise radiation-proof cladding and silver chrome gas canisters all became entangled with my thinking in terms of the possibilities available to me in my weaving. Visible warnings and signifiers of invisible forces and dangers are indicated with colour and labels in the lab. Alongside the protocols and systems for ordering and arranging the objects and materials in the laboratory, an underlying sense of chaos exists.
The differently coloured and textured items in the lab are assemblages of vaster systems of networked product catalogues, serial numbers, invoice forms, shipping receipts and mass-produced items like tape, PPE and disposable gloves. Bespoke devices and dangerous chemicals juxtapose with DIY repairs carried out with masking tape and a hot glue gun. My colour pencil swatches and yarn wraps translate the narrative or ‘mood’ of coming across strange and vibrant objects, they help me to select and combine materials, forms, symbols, colour, context and function. The meeting of the unfamiliar and the familiar, vibrant colours and textures embedded in specific patterns of behaviour and management, which connect and reconnect through my observations of the lab.
